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A Conservative Estimate For Dengue Fever Infections in India: 37 Million Each Year
Dengue fever is become more common worldwide, and India has been particularly hard hit
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Here’s Why We’re Not Living in an Ice Age (And Why That Matters for the Future)
The same feedback systems that took us from ice age to modern warmth are still around
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Finding Life on Other Planets May Be Even Harder Than We Thought
Some scientists think that to find advanced life, you need to look for an asteroid belt
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In Canada, People Gladly Trade in Guns for Shiny New Cameras
Give up your pistol, get a new point-n’-shoot camera
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Habits die hard, but researchers may have the first clue towards neurologically shutting down bad ones
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Dolphins Go Hunting In Fishers’ Nets
Dolphins deliberately enter trawlers’ nets to look for food—sometimes they get caught
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If You Eat Too Much Silver, Your Skin Acts Like a Black-and-White Photo
A complex chemical reaction is responsible for argyria, the condition in which a person turns a deep shade of blue
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Monkeys engage in “sneaky sex” to escape the burning gaze of voyeuristic bystanders
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Laboratory Test Shows Psychics Aren’t Psychic (But Here’s How You Can Pretend To Be)
A controlled trial found that psychics lacked sight, but here are some tricks to help you fake it
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In Sandy’s Wake, Watch Out for Pollution
Potentially contaminated water pooled in the streets could be a health risk
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Evidence Discovered of an Ancient Tsunami on Lake Geneva
Scientists believe a rock fall triggered a 25 foot wave that devastated villages on the shores of the Swiss lake
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Here’s What Happened to Jack Because Rose Didn’t Save Him
After Jack’s cold body sank down to the bottom of the North Atlantic in Titanic, here’s probably what it looked like
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How To Film a Cheetah Sprinting at 61 Miles Per Hour
National Geographic shows how a team filmed Sarah, the fastest cheetah in the world, sprinting at top speed
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Could a Modern Human Beat a Neanderthal in a Fight?
It’s hypothetical conflict, but who would emerge the victor?
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A Massive Field of Frozen Greenhouse Gas Is Thawing Out
Vast stores of methane hydrates off the US east coast are thawing out, but what this means is still up in the air
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Lady Gaga Gets an Entire Genus of Plants Named After Her
The next time you see a little fern out in the wild, it may just be a Gaga
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The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted this horror-inducing video of ear mites crawling around in some poor 70-year-old man’s ear
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Beluga Whale Learns to Speak Like a Human
Beluga whales can vocalize in a way remarkably close to human speech, according to new observations
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Italian Scientists Sent to Jail Because They Downplayed the Risk of an Earthquake
Six scientists and one former government official will do time for failing to accurately convey the risk of an earthquake
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